Draft Decision for the C.P.C. onThe Conflict Between the S.E.C. and the Commissariat for State Control[1]

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TheC.P.C. considers:

1)thatthe State Control should have recommended the S.E.C. to close
its legal departments, but should not have applied a proscriptive order;

2)thatthe Board of the S.E.C. should immediately take energetic
measures to close its legal departments,most of which are parasitical, and to prohibit members of these departments
from being hidden away in other departments. Fulfilment to be reported to
the Narrow

C.P.C.[2]within a week;

3)theCommissariat for Justice to take legal action against members of
the legal departments of the Food Commissariat and the S.E.C, for red tape.
Fulfilment to be reported to the Narrow Council within a week.

[1]Theconflict arose through an order of the People’s Commissariat for
State Control to do away with nine legal departments of the S.E.C. The
latter lodged a complaint against the State Control with the Narrow Council
of People’s Commissars. The C.P.C. endorsed the decision of the Narrow
Council in this connection on September 30, 1919, and adopted Lenin’s
motion with slight amendments, namely: Point 3 was added, reading: “The
same to be demanded of all committees within a fortnight”, while Point 3
of Lenin’s draft was endorsed as Point 4 of the decision worded as follows:
“The Commissariat jor Justice to institute investigations with the object
of taking legal action against members of the S.E.C.’s legal departments
for red tape. Fulfilment to be reported to the Narrow Council within a
week” (Central Party Archives, Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the
C.C. of the C.P.S.U.)

[2]TheNarrow C.P.C. was set up in December 1917 to relieve the agenda of
the C.P.C. of minor questions; it had the status of a
C.P.C. commission. All the decisions unanimously adopted by the Narrow
Council were signed by Lenin and acquired the force of C.P.C. decisions; in
cases of disagreement the business was referred to the C.P.C.